Karel Dujardin painted “Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles” in 1663. The painting is an allegory on the brevity of life. The soap bubbles represent the transitory nature of life and all that we cherish; beautiful for the moment but gone all too soon.
I have spent this past week thinking about my younger daughter. A year […]
This weekend I am “in a good place” emotionally. This last month has been cathartic in terms of writing the story to my daughter and sending it off a week ago. Enough time has gone by that if she checks her mailbox, I would expect she has received it. I think that curiosity might […]
I sent The Little Vine story to my daughter a couple of days ago. I had it printed onto a pale blue paper then had a dark blue plastic backing with clear cover bound onto the story. I wanted the effect to be something that says, “Keep me”. My hope is that she reads […]
I finished this allegory for my daughter, as shown below. The first part of the story is in the last blog post.
I plan to print the story and send it to her apartment. I hope she checks her mail. I hope that she will read the dedication to her, understand in reading this story that […]
